The interest level with each prospect is different, but the number of top-ranked recruits shows U-M’s reach.

“We’ve gotten cold calls about they like the way we play,” U-M coach John Beilein said last month, adding that most of the contact entering the July evaluation period has been on the phone and not in person. “And we follow up. You never know where it’s going to go. We have ideas who we are looking for. They still got to be what we are looking for as far as what’s worked for us in the past. We don’t want to go to far away from that certainly. We do what to always embrace any changes we can make in that.”

Beilein has felt the attention from fellow coaches as well.

“It’s been nice, all the fellow coaches that I bonded with for years and years and years, it is neat to tell them how much … to hear them — how much they enjoyed our team’s run,” he said. “And from the guys that have been there before, whether Final Four champions and other ones been to Final Fours, a greater appreciation on both sides now.”

But Beilein stressed that he and his staff won’t change their approach, just widening their net to prospects they couldn’t reach before.

“If you look at this recruiting class coming in, with Derrick (Walton) and Zak (Irvin) and Mark (Donnal), I really believe it’s a great recruiting class that was done with none of this,” Beilein said. “We’ve still got to be who we are but we still are really able to reach out to a lot of good prospects after our run.”